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From: jason77.wang@gmail.com (Hui Wang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: imx6q restart is broken
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:11:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502DFCB4.9050502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120817034854.GE24242@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net>

Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:34:46PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>   
>> This doesn't get around the problem that userspace can still effectively
>> issue a DoS against the system by just running a dmb in a tight loop.
>> Or maybe this would have a much more dramatic effect:
>>
>> 	while (1) {
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 		asm("dmb");
>> 	}
>>
>> and make that 3 seconds to get a ps listing turn into something much
>> longer?
>>
>>     
> >From my testing, no, it does not get the thing even worse.
>
>   
>> I think what needs to happen here (while we wait) is someone _with_ the
>> problem needs to experiment, and find out how many nops are needed for
>> the DMB not to have much effect in cpu_relax().  If it turns out we just
>> need to put one nop in, then that's not _too_ bad.
>>     
>
> At least, I need to have 5 nops to get rid of the issue, something like
> below.
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
>
> --8<---
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
> index 99afa74..3e1b099 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -80,7 +80,14 @@ extern void release_thread(struct task_struct *);
>  unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p);
>
>  #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ == 6 || defined(CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_754327)
> -#define cpu_relax()                    smp_mb()
> +#define cpu_relax()    do {                                            \
> +                               asm("nop");                             \
> +                               asm("nop");                             \
> +                               asm("nop");                             \
> +                               asm("nop");                             \
> +                               asm("nop");                             \
> +                               smp_mb();                               \
> +                       } while (0)
>  #else
>  #define cpu_relax()                    barrier()
>  #endif
>
>
>   
In my test, if the number of nops is equal or more than 4, the reset can 
work fine.

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
index 0511238..3ad4258 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@
: : "r" (0) : "memory")
#define dsb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c10, 4" \
: : "r" (0) : "memory")
-#define dmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c10, 5" \
+#define dmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c10, 5\n" \
+ "nop\n" \
+ "nop\n" \
+ "nop\n" \
+ "nop\n" \
: : "r" (0) : "memory")

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-08 10:18 imx6q restart is broken Shawn Guo
2012-08-08 10:53 ` Dirk Behme
2012-08-09  3:18   ` Hui Wang
2012-08-09  4:41     ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-09  6:32       ` Sascha Hauer
2012-08-09  8:06       ` Catalin Marinas
2012-08-09  8:18         ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-09  9:20     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-09 12:01       ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-09 12:22         ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-09 13:57           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-09 14:01             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-09 14:24               ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-09 19:03       ` Matt Sealey
2012-08-09 21:07         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-10 13:33           ` Matt Sealey
2012-08-10 13:53             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-15 15:07       ` Rob Herring
2012-08-15 21:44         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-16  2:31           ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-16 17:21             ` Matt Sealey
2012-08-16 22:34             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-17  3:48               ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-17  8:11                 ` Hui Wang [this message]
2012-08-19 15:26                 ` Shawn Guo
2012-08-16  8:41           ` Catalin Marinas

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